Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

Friday, May 20, 2016

Blue Flax, Before Rain, After Rain

While the blue flax plant
is quite hardy, the flowers are delicate.
Did I say delicate? I mean bright.

Actually, blue flax
flowers are both.

A swath flax is flourishing
near my pole-mounted solar array at present.
They are definitely attention-getters. Caught in the sunlight, the flowers burn like
urgent blue flames against the green grass.

Yet the flowers are
fragile. The blossoms open in the
morning, then close again in the evening.

Day after day the flax
plants put forth their flowers.

We experienced a fairly
heavy rain early yesterday afternoon. I
captured a few images of the flax just before the rain. Fully opened, the flowers were about the size
of a quarter. Just after the rain, I
returned to the flax with my camera and captured an image of the flowers.